Adivasi

Tough Task Implementing PM JANMAN for Adivasi Upliftment

The new scheme for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups faces many hurdles in reaching its goals. To improve living conditions, accurate data, sufficient funding, and community participation are…
▶05-Aug-2024
Chakradhar Buddha, Rahul Mukkera

Interacting with the ‘Outside’

Urbanisation has offered the Adivasi youth of Jharkhand new opportunities, but also opened them up to new forms of discrimination. Adivasi women are doubly disadvantaged, with their needs more likely…
▶30-Nov-2023
Kumari Vibhuti Nayak, Abha Rao
Book
Review

The Narmada Andolan in the Words of Adivasi Leaders

An account of the Narmada Bachao Andolan’s activities woven from the memories of two Adivasi activists, who were in the midst of it all, provides rich insights into the movement and gives voice to…
▶01-Aug-2022
Kalpana Sharma

'Will Come if it is in Our Podu'

Why do health workers often take the punitive route to obtain compliance from marginalised communities? How can we build cultural sensitivity into our public health practice? A story of the Solega…
▶31-Aug-2021
Prashanth N Srinivas, Tanya Seshadri, C Mahadeva, Mathew Sunil George
Q and A

Contemporary Developments in India

A conversation, including by a group of college students, with the historian Ramachandra Guha on contemporary politics, environmental issues, and Adivasi rights.
▶04-Nov-2020
Ram Bhat

The Sabars of Singhbhum

A photo-essay on the Sabars, an identified Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, who survive—live is hardly the word—in the most extreme conditions in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
▶20-Oct-2020
Arpita Sarkar

Margins and Marginality

The Pathalgadi movement of Jharkhand drew on Munda traditions to fashion the 2019 electoral defeat of the incumbent party. A unique interplay of an assertion of constitutional rights, local…
▶04-Jun-2020
Mukulika Banerjee, Manisha Priyam

In Memoriam: Sociologist and Activist Abhay Xaxa

A reflection on the life and legacy of Abhay Xaxa, visionary Adivasi leader, teacher, and thinker, and what the relative silence around his untimely death says about us.
▶02-Apr-2020
Chitrangada Choudhury, Aniket Aga

Structural Violence of Casteism

In West Bengal, the symbolic violence of caste is more intense than physical violence. A university teacher describes the everyday exclusionary experiences of adivasis in education spaces and the…
▶26-Sep-2019
Maroona Murmu